Gee! what an ants' nest I stirred up with this one!

Think I may have to change my name from maverick - I seem to fit into the conventional view *far too easily amongst this gang of libertarians

Keep it up, though, Bill, if that's your honest opinion. That's the very liberty that generations of activists have won for us.

~ and no one has yet mentioned Galileo Galilei, who for me epitomises the start of the time when the power of The Truth became subordinate to the process of reason, marking also a shift in the axis of cultural power from the catholic south to the protestant north of Europe...